Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal… — Robert H. Jackson
As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager… — Marcus Buckingham
People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a… — Haki R. Madhubuti
Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. ( — Tananarive Due
Everything is done by CONTRACT. It DOESN'T matter whether it's Civil or Criminal. There is NO LAW anymore because there is NO MONEY (Of substance)… — Jack Smith
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the… — Marcus Aurelius
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which… — Johannes Peter Muller
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not. — Grantland Rice
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious… — Peter L. Berger
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally… — Giambattista Vico
We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex… — Linus Pauling
I hate the word famous because it has no substance. — Harry Styles
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments. — Daniel Okrent
I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a… — Dave Barry
As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances… — Paul Krassner
After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat.… — Richie Ashburn
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and… — Karl Landsteiner
It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the… — Martin Gardner
I do not admire greatness that has no substance. — Mary Balogh
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up… — Charles Ives
We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking. — Susan Cain
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens. — Thomas Szasz
Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance. — Tommy Ramone
I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be… — Marilynne Robinson

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